South Orleans News

Residents in new Ottawa suburbs will have to pay the full transit fare on their property taxes.

Polls, pundits and promises - just thinking about them gets your stomach churning, doesn't it? With the drawn-out presidential campaign in its final days, anxiety, frustration or even anger can take their toll.

I confess. I have associated with criminals. Twice in the past 40 years I have been on the same medical staff as a physician who subsequently was imprisoned for tax evasion.

Hearle Gallery of Chatham Welcome to Chatham's treasure trove of fine art, featuring original paintings in oil & watercolor and over fifty limited edition fine art reproductions.

The Cape Cod Chapter of the American Business Women's Association is pleased to announce its board and committee members for the year running from August 2008 through July 2009.

The Friends of Pleasant Bay are coordinating a cleanup effort along the bay shoreline as part of tomorrow's 21st annual Coastsweep.

Gorrell's Sept. 6 cartoon showing Obama pointing the finger at McCain for being negative just because he "disagreed" with him was totally offensive to me.

It's not time to liquidate your assets and hide your cash under the mattress quite yet.

Anthony Kneafsey's Sept. 4 My View was an excellent review of our oil situation.

A Cape Cod Notebook 7/8/08 Outer Beach Overnights BY Robert Finch Over the past winter I've been following the fate of the cottages on Chatham's North Beach.

Streets dug up for sewers. A big boost in real estate taxes and yearly bills. Cleaner coastal waters and reviving ponds.

Incumbents David Dunford and John Hinckley will return to the board of selectmen, voters decided yesterday.

“We were thinking in the $150 million range because our neighbor to the south, Chatham, is sewering the whole town for $300 million and we're doing about half that”

The estimate to put sewers in about half of Orleans ranges from $133 million to $189 million, according to preliminary estimates. via Cape Cod Times

SOUTH ORLEANS, Mass. - Ruth Melchior Fleck, 89, of South Orleans, Mass., died peacefully at Cape Cod Hospital on May 1, 2008, surrounded by her three daughters. via Home News Tribune

Four candidates, including two incumbents, are competing for two three-year seats on the Orleans Board of Selectmen. via Cape Cod Times

“We all have to look at the big picture here and support it”

Four options being releases sure to stir pot Tomorrow's decision on the city's transit future isn't going to please everyone. via Ottawa Sun